The Exquisite Theta Epsilon Chapter
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
Sam Houston State University
Chapter History
"Supreme in service to all mankind" is the promise of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The Theta Epsilon Chapter is dedicated to upholding the standards of the organization. Our chapter was chartered by twelve distinguished young women at Sam Houston State University on November 9, 1973.
These pearls are: Soror Sonja Bihms, Soror Shelia Cobb, Soror Carol Hightower, Soror Wanda Howard-Horton, Soror Sue Jones, Soror Margaret McGowen, Soror Cordette Morris, Soror Jacquelyn Murray, Soror Mary Satterwhite, Soror Jacquelyn Whitaker, Soror Diane Williams, and Soror Sandra Williams.
Over the years, Theta Epsilon has brought to the University and the Huntsville community activities that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is promoting on both national and international levels. Some of our annual projects include: Huntsville's Biggest Baby Shower, Pink October, Strengthening the Black Woman, Economic Empowerment, Skee Week, and a series of black family programs. Theta Epsilon also sponsors programs in conjunction with other organizations such as the Theta Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, as well as the Sam Houston Program Council.
The programs and focuses of the Theta Epsilon Chapter have grown and developed throughout the years, ensuring that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated will forever be a sisterhood devoted to being supreme in service to all mankind.
Sorority History
Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest Greek-letter organization established in America by black college women. The record of its origin, development, activities, evolving goals, and accomplishments is more than an interesting chronicle of a colorful bit of college-based Americana. It is, rather, a significant and inspiring reflection of the development of a minority group in a changing culture.
In 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became America’s first Greek-letter organization established by and for black women. Her roots date back to Howard University in Washington, DC, where the idea for formation was conceived by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle of St. Louis, Missouri. She viewed the sorority as an instrument for enriching the social and intellectual aspects of college life by providing mental stimulation through interaction with friends and associates.
Through the years, however, Alpha Kappa Alpha’s functioning has become more complex. After her incorporation as a perpetual body in 1913, Alpha Kappa Alpha gradually branched out and became the channel through which selected, college-trained women improved the social and economic conditions in their city, state, nation, and the world. Today, that tradition has continued internationally, nationally, and locally. Alpha Kappa Alpha serves all mankind through a nucleus of more than 140,000 women in over 860 chapters.
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